Nakai Kie

Nakai Kie is a Japanese actress and essayist. She graduated from Rural Chofu Akiba Junior and Senior High School and Waseda University. Her younger brother is the actor Nakai Kiichi. She made her debut as an actress while attending Waseda University School of Letters, transferred from one part to the…

Kanai Dai

Kanai Dai was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture. He dropped out of the Chuo University, Department of Law. In 1952, he founded the theater company Izumiza. His eldest son is the actor Kanai Setsu. On June 17, 2001, at the age of 74, he died of pneumonia at a hospital…

Naoki Sanjugo

Naoki Sanjugo was a Japanese novelist, screenwriter, and film director, born in what is now Andojimachi, Chuo-ku, Osaka Naoki studied at Waseda University's English Department Preparatory Course and then at Waseda University's Higher Normal School English Department, but dropped out due to unpaid monthly…

Sato Takuma

Sato Takuma is a Japanese director born in Akita, Japan. He graduated from Akita Prefectural Akita Minami High School (秋田県立秋田南高等学校). During his school years, he played soccer, representing the Akita Prefecture select team in elementary and middle school. He also participated in…

Fujiyoshi Kumiko

Fujiyoshi Kumiko is a Japanese actress and narrator born in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. She is married to the actor and former singer Yosuke Tagawa. They have a son born in 200, when she was 39 years old. In 2017, she was accused of having an extra-marital affair with a married producer working at Asahi…

Kurara Haruka

Kurara Harukaa, birth name Yamasaki Kumiko (山崎久美子) was a Takarazuka Revue Top Star before starting her TV and film acting career in 1984 with Toho Entertainment. Her stage name was given by the playwright Yashiro Seiichi. 'Haruka' (遥) means 'aimed at far away' while 'Kurara' is romaji for…

Ishido Toshiro

Toshiro Ishido was born on July 17, 1932 in Onomichi, Hiroshima, Japan. He was a writer and actor, known for Black Rain (1989), Eight Below (2006) and Return of Ultraman (1971). He died on November 1, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan. He went by the pen name Ishido Yoshi Akira. (Source: IMDb)

Koike Ayame

Ayame Koike (小池彩夢, Koike Ayame, born February 13, 1995) is a Japanese actress under the Sony Music Artists. Koike made her acting debut in the Japanese television drama Botan to Bara as Rika Nojima in 2004. In 2007, Koike appeared in NHK Educational TV's Yuhigaoka Boy Detectives (夕陽ヶ丘の探偵団,…

Hando Hikosaburo IX

Hando Terusato is the ninth generation to wield the title Hando Hikosaburo, the head of the Otowaya Troupe, a traditional arts performing troupe. He was born on 29th June 1976. His first performance was at the National Theatre in Tokyo at the age of 5, playing the role of a young monk. He inherited…

Satoki Saburo

Satoki Saburo was a Japanese actor born in Yamamori, Yamagata, Japan. His real name was Sato Kizaburo (藤喜三郎). He was also known by various stage names, including Satoki Saburo (里木三郎), Satoki Saburo (里木左甫良), Satoki Saburo (里木三朗), Satoki Saburo (里木三甫良), Kuromaki…

Natsuzora Dance

High School girl Kawabe Natsuko is the leading member of the dance troupe and is deeply committed to a video project. Meanwhile, her father works for the city office and is tasked with rebuilding the city after it…

Inochi no Michikake

Shota, an older brother who has lived selfishly, forgetting about his family, and Yusaku, a younger brother who has fallen into drug addiction and lives in a rehabilitation facility. After their grandmother, their…

Whale Restaurant

A documentary by Keiko Yagi that approaches whales from the perspectives of "food'' and "science". Whale was once the top protein source for Japanese people and was eaten more than cows, pigs, and chickens. However,…

Hakushi Project Vol. 2

The second installment of the Hakushi Project contains two works. "Oneechan no Damedashi (お姉ちゃんのダメ出し)" is about two siblings who lost their parents in a car accident. Older sister Hazuki has raised…

Push Pause

7.8

The Coco guesthouse cultivates new relationships, providing a platform for confronting personal pasts and futures. Shiko, leaving her hometown due to family issues, lacked confidence and avoided connections. Yet, at…

Boku no Te wo Urimasu

7.2

45-year-old Ookuwa Kitaro is a member of the "ice age" generation who failed miserably and is left with a lot of debt. He leaves his free-spirited and competitive wife, Ookuwa Masami and their daughter, Ookuwa Maruko,…

Songs of Kamui

More than anything, brilliant Teru longs to attend school with other girls. But in early 20th-century Japan, Teru is excluded because she is Ainu. Instead of writing, the Ainu—indigenous people from Japan’s Hokkaido…

Fun! Fun! Fantastics Season 3

A situational comedy where the members of FANTASTICS from Exile Tribe gather at a certain teahouse to learn about the culture of the 80s and 90s from legendary figures in various fields. Featured guests include seiyuu…

Kokando Josho Sapuri

Tanimura Yuji, who works in the Sales Department at a publishing company, has been plain since his school days and has never been good at anything. One day, while living such a life of low self-esteem, he happens to…

The Truth

6.9

Set in a fictional news show called "THE TRUTH", where the MC approaches the "truth of the world" with "poison and humor". The show has various segments where different discussions take place with special guests. However,…